When murder strikes close to home and pretty young girls vanish from the privileged streets of Shady Hills, literary agent Jane Stuart finds herself in the midst of a real life page turner...with a deadly surprise ending...Jane couldn't say no when her nanny's sister needed a place to stay, but she's certainly glad to see her houseguest go. In just two weeks as assistant director of the Shady Hills Public Library, Crystal Ryerson has proven herself a meddler par excellence. Still, it's shocking when the next meeting of Jane's reading group crashes to a halt as thousands of pounds of books and shelves come toppling down on poor Crystal - especially after it's discovered that the bolts on the bookcase had been deliberately removed. But when the body of a teenager who worked at the library is found in the woods behind the railroad tracks, and two other girls go missing, Jane is sure the events are all pieces of the same puzzle. Somehow, despite the ever-present distractions of trying to keep Winky's claws out of the couch and her diva clients' claws out of each other, Jane manages to stay on the murderer's trail.
But a trail can go both ways, and this one may well lead the killer right to Jane's doorstep...
- ISBN10 0758202296
- ISBN13 9780758202291
- Publish Date 5 October 2005 (first published 1 November 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Kensington Publishing
- Imprint Kensington Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English